OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Research in Quality of Life is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
School Acceptance and Support Moderate the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior: A Longitudinal Study	38
Unrevealing the Mediating Mechanisms Between Material Deprivation and Children’s Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being	36
Digital Inequality and Household Income Distribution: Evidence from Rural China	34
Effect of Coping Flexibility on Life Satisfaction of College Students: A Longitudinal Study	30
Long Working Hours and Job Satisfaction in Platform Employment: An Empirical Study of On-Demand Delivery Couriers in China	27
The Impact of Age, COVID-19 and Physical Activity on Life Satisfaction in the European Union: A Cross-Sectional Analysis	27
The Mediating Role of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in The Relation Between Cognitive Function and Life Satisfaction Among Malaysian Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Do Gender and Age Matter	26
How Government Stereotypes Affect Life Satisfaction: a Good Government Matters More Than a Government That Does Good	26
Evaluation of Electronic Service-Learning (e-Service-Learning) Projects in Mainland China under COVID-19	24
Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States	24
Eudaimonia in Sourdough: Understanding Well-Being in the Sensory Experiences of Artisanal Activities	22
Health Consequences of Online Social Capital among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China	22
The Effect of COVID-19 Information Overload on Emotional Eating in Post-pandemic Period in China: The Mediating Role of Fear of COVID-19 and the Moderating Role of Self-compassion	21
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Happiness in Europe: A Multilevel Structural Equation Model (GSEM)	21
Past and Present Subjective Well-being: the Role of Contrast and Memory	21
Educational Expectations of Left-behind Children in China: Determinants and Gender Differences	20
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis	20
Consumer Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing; Multi-Year Analyses	20
Perceived Parental Psychopathology and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: Indirect Effects through Psychopathy	19
The Relationship Between College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction and Aggression: A Moderated Mediation Model	19
Health-Related Quality of Life: Measurement Tools, Predictors and Modifiers	19
Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?	18
Happiness, Space and Place: Community Area Clustering and Spillovers of Life Satisfaction in Canada	18
The Role of Environmental, Economic, and Social Dimensions of Sustainability in the Quality of Life in Spain	17
Validation of the Short‐Form 36 Health Survey (SF‐36) for use in Mexican older persons	17

Gender Differences in Children’s Psychological Well-Being in Mainland China: Risk and Protective Factors	17
The Recent Dangers for European Happiness: Is Homeostatic Resilience Sufficient?	17
Transmission of Educational Outcomes Across Three Generations: Evidence From Migrant Workers’ Children in China	16
The Impact of Citizens’ Satisfaction with National-level Institutions and Conditions on Their Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from 137 Countries	16
The Mediation of Exam-oriented Cultural Capital: Economic Capital and Educational Inequality of Chinese High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closures	16
Stressful Events, Psychological Distress and Well-Being during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: A Gender Analysis	14
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Minnesota Long-Stay Resident Quality of Life Survey	14
Spatial Patterns of Subjective Well-Being on the Aquitaine Coastline, France	14
Why are City Residents Less Happy than the Rest of the Population in Developed Countries? Studying the Urban-Rural Happiness Gap in Denmark Using Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition	14
50 Years of Character Assessment: A Scoping Review of Psychometric Instruments Measuring Character or Virtues	13
Hong Kong Adolescents’ Participation in Political Activities: Correlates of Violent Political Participation	13
Having a Partner or Living with a Partner: Differences in Life Satisfaction and Mental Health	13
Who Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class	12
The Paradox of Parental Workaholism: How Incongruence Promotes Student Engagement and Congruence Reduces Student Engagement	12
Co-parenting Pathways from Grandparents’ Psychological Control to Parents’ Depressive Symptoms	12
Understanding Teacher Educators' Quality of Life: Insights from the PERMA Model	12
The Impact of Short-Term Study in China Programs: Voices of Hong Kong University Students	12
Material Conditions and Their Relationship with Affective Components of Subjective Well-being in Children	12
Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain	12
Universal Basic Income and Autonomous Work Motivation: Influences on Trajectories of Mental Health in Employees	11
Service Leadership through Serving Minority Adolescents in Rural China Using a Rural Version of a Positive Youth Development Program	11
Does the Dibao Program Improve Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in China? Perceptions of Pathways of Poverty Attribution and Income Inequality	11
The Influence of Intelligence in Young Adulthood on Quality of Life in Midlife: a Danish Cohort Study of 893 Men	11
Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line	10
Parenting Attitudes and Korean Adolescents’ Mobile Phone Dependency: Testing the Mediating Effects of Depression	10
Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran	10
Reciprocal relationship between multicultural adolescents’ depression and life satisfaction: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model for 3-wave panel data	10
Gender Differences in Desired Alone Time Among Canadian Parents of Young Children	10
Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world	10
Perceived Unfairness Moderates the Association Between Relative Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being: Findings from an East Asian Country	9
“Withdrawal Syndrome”: The Effects of Acts of Microaggression in the Classroom on Racialized Students	9
Life Satisfaction and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Evidence from the Basic Income Experiment in Barcelona	9
Housing and Subjective Well-Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model	9
Beyond Material Resources: Sleep Well and Be Hopeful for Less Worry and Better Wellbeing	9
Do Affective States Influence the Receptivity of Hope Intervention? A Three-Week Self-Administered Online Hope Intervention	9
Consumer Financial Capability and Quality of Life: a Global Perspective	9
Trajectories of Canadian Workers’ Well-Being During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
‘Bad Jobs’ in Europe: Derivation and Analysis of a Wellbeing-Related Job Quality Threshold	9
Intergenerational Relationship Types and Attitude Toward Retirement: Do Gender and Number of Children Matter?	9
Using Autonomous Teams to Improve Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities	9
The Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty on State Anxiety in the Regular Epidemic Prevention and Control Phase in the Context of Informatization: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model	8
Why do Middle-Aged Adults Report Worse Mental Health and Wellbeing than Younger Adults? An Exploratory Network Analysis of the Swiss Household Panel Data	8
Bicultural Acceptance Attitude as a Protective Factor Against the Effect of Acculturative Stress on Life Satisfaction Among Korean Multicultural Adolescents	8
Women’s Mental Health During COVID-19 in South Africa	8
Job satisfaction as a mediator between family-to-work conflict and satisfaction with family life: a dyadic analysis in dual-earner parents	8
Sonja Lyubomirsky: Pioneer in the Empirical Study of Happiness and Well-Being Interventions	8
The Breakup of Binational Couples: Analyzing the Importance of Cultural Dissimilarity in the Couple Well-Being	8
Air Pollution Reduces the Individuals’ Life Satisfaction Through Health Impairment	8
Housing Conditions and Adolescents’ Socioemotional Well-being: An Empirical Examination from China	8
Father Identity Enactment and Paternal Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Roles of Contexts	8

Perspectives on Well-being of Older Adults and Young People in Taiwan- A Q-Methodology Study	7
Enacted Ebola Stigma and Health-related Quality of Life in Post Ebola Epidemic: A Psychosocial Mediation Framework Through Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Coping	7
Why Do Individuals Engage with the Natural World? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Effect of Nature Engagement and Well-Being	7
The Impact of the Pandemic on Health and Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers of Older People: Results from a Cross-National European Survey in an Age-Related Perspective	7
Review of the Book Community Prevention of Child Labor. Evidence-based Practices to Promote the Psychological Well-being of Minors. Maya Jariego, I. (2021). Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making	7
Longitudinal Associations of Gratitude with Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being: A Two-Wave Study	7
Transition Patterns of Intergenerational Solidarity and Digital Communication During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea: Association with Older Parents’ Cognitive Decline	7
Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model	7
Cultivating the Psychological Well-Being of Early-Childhood Education Teachers: the Importance of Quality Work Life	7
PERMA-Profiler for the Evaluation of well-being: Adaptation and Validation in a Sample of University Students and Employees in the Mexican Educational Context	7
Informal Caregivers’ Benefits of Residing in a Neighborhood with High Social Participation: A Multilevel Analysis in Japan	7
Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies	7
Ming-Chang Tsai: A Pioneer in Comparative Quality of Life Research	7
Generational Differences in Subjective Well-Being in Australia	6
Being Virtuous Together: A One-Year Prospective Study on Organizational Virtuousness, Well-Being, and Organizational Commitment	6
The Indirect Effect of Mindfulness in Marriage in the Relationship Between Digital Stress and Dyadic Adjustment: An Investigation of Dyadic Effects	6
Gratitude as a Protective Factor for Cybervictimisation and Anxiety Symptomatology: A Prospective Study	6
Intergenerational Coresidence and Life Satisfaction in Old Age: The Moderating Role of Homeownership	6
Scan the QR Code of Happiness: Can Mobile Payment Adoption Make People Happier?	6
Trajectories of Self-Control in Emerging Adulthood: Implications for Academic, Psychological, and Career Development among Chinese College Students	6
The Impact of Covid19 on the Urban–Rural Happiness	6
“I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement	6
How can the Social Family Climate Contribute to Emotional Intelligence in Preventing Suicidal Ideation and Promoting Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents?	6
The Higher the Education, the Less Leisure Time? - An Empirical Analysis from CTUS	6
Low Income Amplifies the Negative Relationship Between Nostalgia Proneness and Well-Being	6
Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes	6
Cyberbullying Following Cyber-Victimization Among Chinese Children: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Normative Beliefs About Aggression	5
The Role of Spirituality and Beliefs in the Future in the Mental Health of Chinese Adolescents During the Pandemic	5
Conceptualization of self-oriented parenting perfectionism and its Associations with parents’ wellbeing among Chinese parents	5
Happily Distant or Bitter Medicine? The Impact of Social Distancing Preferences, Behavior, and Emotional Costs on Subjective Wellbeing During the Epidemic	5
Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	5
What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana	5
The Dual Effects of Passion on Leisure Wellbeing: Toward a Theory of Engagement in Diverse Leisure Activities	5
“Your Health at Present”: Are Patterns of Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-rated Health Gendered?	5
Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Adjustment, Family Communication, and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study	5
Correction to: Preventing Violence through Participation in Community Building in Youth	5
Valuing the Wellbeing Associated with Psychosocial Factors at Work	5
Psychosocial Influences on Coping and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Research	5
The Effects of Parental Labor Migration on Children’s Mental Health in Rural China	5
Virtues as Mediators of the associations between Religious/Spiritual Commitment and Well-being	5
Assessing Human Development in Nepal through Descriptive and Cluster Analysis: Progress and Disparities	5
Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses	5
Ethnic Disparities and the Psychological Trauma of Maltreated Children: Evidence from Three Multi-ethnic Counties in China	5
“Helping Others Makes Me Feel Better”: Trait Gratitude, Resilience, and Helping Behavior Improve Mental Health during a COVID-19 Lockdown	5
Gender Disparities in Childhood Poverty and Employment Quality among Young Adult Workers in South Korea	5
Exploring the Association between Multidimensional Poverty and Depression Using Structural Equation Models	5
Editorial: Children and Adolescent Quality of Life under Socialism with Chinese Characteristics	5
Does Religion Buffer the Negative Effects of Economic and Subjective Poverty on Life Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Hong Kong	5
Wellbeing Heterogeneity within and Among University Students	5
Correction to: Free-Market, Perfect Market and Welfare State Perspectives on “Good” Markets: an Empirical Test	5
Resilience and Mental Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Testing the Moderation Model of Physical Activity and Religiosity	4
Impact of Institutional Quality on the Quality of Life in Africa: An Economic Approach	4
Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing	4
Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction:	4
Changes in Job Strain in the US, Europe and Korea	4
A Meta-Analysis of Neighbourhood Interventions on Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health	4
A Multilevel Longitudinal Study of Individual, Household and Village Factors Associated with Happiness Among Adults in the Southernmost Provinces of Thailand	4
Why are adolescents harshly punished by parents more vulnerable to bullying victimization? Evidence across nine countries	4
Exploring the Work-Life Spillover of Voice Practices: The Role of Voice Instrumentality in Improving the Quality of Employees’ Lives	4
The relationship between problematic social media use and health behavior: An exploratory specification curve analysis of large-scale survey data	4
My Home is My Burden? Homeownership, Financial Burden and Subjective Well-Being in a Unitary Rental Market	4
Is Educational Aspiration Mismatch Associated With Depressive Symptomatology? An Analysis of Mother-Adolescent Dyads	4
Determinants of Life Satisfaction and Self-Perceived Health in Nationally Representative Population-Based Samples, Canada, 2009 to 2018	4
Confidence in Societal Institutions Extends Citizens’ Radius of Trust, Leading to Even Greater Life Satisfaction in Societies with Stronger Rule of Law	4
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Metaphors on Anxiety Symptoms Among Chinese Graduate Students: The Mediation Effect of Worry	4
What Constitutes Well-being? Five Views Among Adult People from the Netherlands on what is Important for a Good Life	4
Early Childhood Care Trends and Associations with Child Health Well-being in China: Evidence from the CHNS 1991 to 2011 Data	4
Patterns of Sexuality, Adjustment to Aging and Satisfaction with Life: A Cluster Analysis of Adults Across the Lifespan	4
Life Satisfaction in China, 2010–2018: Trends and Unique Determinants	4
Long Covid: A Syndemics Approach to Understanding and Response	4
Examining the Pathways from General Trust Through Social Connectedness to Subjective Wellbeing	4
Social Relationships as Mediators of Material Deprivation, School Bullying Victimization, and Subjective Well-Being among Children Across 25 Countries: A Global and Cross-National Perspective	4